Tag Archives: education

LOUISIANA: Senate Panel Approves Bill To Ban Gay Kids From Charter Schools

In a move that is backed by the Louisiana Family Council, a state Senate committee has approved a GOP bill that would make it legal for charter schools to refuse admittance to gay children. The bill also authorizes schools to turn away students with poor English skills and with physical challenges. Charter schools are private institutions contracted by the state …

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MINNESOTA: Catholic High Schoolers Reject Anti-Gay Marriage Lecture

Knowing that they’d be eligible to vote in November, the administrators of a Minnesota Catholic high school held a seniors-only assembly in order to indoctrinate the entire class against same-sex marriage. The reaction of the students was unexpected. “The first three-quarters of the presentation were really good,” said senior Matt Bliss. “They talked about what is marriage and how marriage …

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Hate Group Leader Linda Harvey Issues 10 Ways To Continue Abusing LGBT Kids

Linda Harvey of Mission America, a 2012 inductee onto the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of hate groups, has posted a World Net Daily column titled: “Ten Reasons To Walk Out On The ‘Day Of Silence.'” It begins: 1. A silent protest in support of immoral, God-dishonoring behavior is in itself profoundly deceptive. All sexual behavior outside man/woman marriage is …

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Arizona Hates Mexicans (Con’t)

Remember two years ago when Arizona banned ethnic studies in public schools? The same racist douchebag behind that move wants to expand the ban to state universities. An Arizona official who led the effort to suspend Mexican American studies from Tucson public schools is considering taking his fight to the state university system. Arizona’s superintendent of schools, John Huppenthal, says …

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NYC Bans 50 Words From School Tests

The NYC Department of Education is raising eyebrows after issuing a list of 50 words it plans to strike from standardized tests because they are “distracting to segments of the city’s diverse student population.” Such tests have been criticized over the years for using word problems that are alien to impoverished children, such as questions about silverware settings at the …

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TENNESSEE: Senate Passes Bill Allowing The Teaching Of Creationism

The Tennessee Senate has approved a bill that will allow teachers to advocate for creationism and against climate change. The bill’s wording is couched in terms of “protecting the right to open discussion.” Senators voted 24-8 to pass a bill that says schoolteachers cannot be punished for “helping students to understand, analyze, critique and review in an objective manner the …

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Focus On The Family Launches This Year’s Campaign To Enable Anti-Gay Bullying

As they’ve done the last few years, Focus On The Family has launched their campaign to thwart the nation’s largest in-school campaign to bring attention to anti-gay bullying, the Day Of Silence. This year Focus is telling kids to download a “conversation card,” which they can hand out to gay kids to let them know that they are are doomed …

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AFA Poll Of The Day

Results.

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SCOTUS: College Christian Clubs Can’t Discriminate Against LGBT Students

The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling that Christian student clubs cannot bar LGBT people from membership. The justices on Monday are leaving in place a federal appeals court ruling that found that the policy doesn’t violate the Constitution. The policy says officially recognized campus groups can’t discriminate based on religion or …

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What GOProud Really Wants

Not only does GOProud oppose a federal anti-bullying law, they are cloaking their support for school vouchers by claiming it would protect gay kids. In fact, what GOProud really wants is to further erode the crumbling public education system by having the government redirect funds to private religious schools. Or as in the case of the Santorums, pay the parents …

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Judges Order Missouri School District To Stop Blocking LGBT-Friendly Websites

Score another ACLU victory in Missouri A U.S. district judge issued a preliminary injunction banning the use of filtering software by the Camdenton R-III School District. The American Civil Liberties Union had filed a lawsuit against the district, claiming it was deliberately restricting access to homosexual-themed websites while still allowing students to view what it describes as “anti-LGBT sites that …

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Kentucky Rejects Anti-Bullying Bill

Republicans in the Kentucky House Education Committee today squashed an anti-bullying bill because it would help prevent gay children from killing themselves. The vote came after parents and friends of teenagers who killed themselves to end incessant school bullying told lawmakers about the need for stronger protections for all students. Several lawmakers on the panel contended that existing anti-bullying laws …

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FLORIDA: Public School Teacher Fired Over Gay Porn Career Gets Reinstated

The state of Florida has ruled that public school teacher Shawn Loftis was wrongly fired last year after his second career as a porn actor was exposed. Loftis — who starred in gay porn films under the name Collin O’Neil — was teaching at Nautilus Middle School when the principal learned of his past, according to WPLG 10 News. The …

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CALIFORNIA: Bid To Repeal Gay-Friendly Education Bill Launches Petition Drive

Randy Thomasson, of the newly certified hate group Save California, says children are already being brainwashed and SB48 hasn’t even been implemented yet. “In an apparent attempt to keep children enrolled for the purpose of sexual indoctrination and average daily attendance funding, the California Department of Education is deceiving parents about the mandate of SB 48, which requires, through supplement …

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Cengage Learning – It Gets Better

With a nice shout-out to JMG at 4:15.

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Quote Of The Day – Peter Sprigg

“An important statistic that I read once was that there’s a survey done of 12 year-olds that found at age 12, 25 percent of the students were unsure of their sexual orientation. But we know from surveys of the adult population that only maybe 2 to 3 percent of the adult population will actually identify as homosexual or bisexual. So …

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Today In Anti-Gay Scare Tactics

It’s actually a proposed bill, in one province, in a foreign country. But don’t let little details like that stop World Net Daily from screaming about those scaaaaary gays. Homeschooling families will soon be forbidden from teaching that homosexual sex is sinful as part of their schooling program, according to the government of Alberta, Canada. Under the province’s Education Act, …

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Sheriff Paul Babeu Was Headmaster At
MA Boarding School Accused Of Abuses

Reportedly Babeu claimed that one of the school’s 17 year-old students was his boyfriend.

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The Plan To Allow Anti-Gay Bullying

Focus On The Family has posted a 40-minute session recorded earlier this month at CPAC in which their presenters outlined their strategies on how to thwart and roll-back anti-bullying protections for LGBT students. Yes, it’s a long clip, but activists for this cause should pay particular attention to the plan voiced by the attorney for the Alliance Defense Fund.

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Another Win For NYC Churches Vs Schools

A Bronx judge has granted an injunction against an earlier ruling that banned churches from meeting in New York City public schools. That means viciously anti-gay preachers, congregations, and at least one “ex-gay” organization will again convene tomorrow, essentially for free, in public spaces across the city. Some church groups openly admit that they are engaging in a “church planting” …

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